Sarah’s Story | Episode Two

Hirschfeld Oncology: Fighting Cancer Series (Stage 4 Colon Cancer)

This is an interview about a woman named Sarah, with her husband, all about a battle against recurring colon cancer told in a series of segments. This is Episode Two.

If you would like to start at the beginning of the story click here for Episode One.

We went for the CT scan and we went immediately to Dr. Hirschfeld’s office from there. And when we sat down by Dr. Hirschfeld, he had just received a phone call from the radiologist.

The Trouble with Big Hospitals

When you’re dealing with top hospitals, they’re great, but they do have to work within a protocol. And they can’t go out of the box, essentially. Of course, they can try various things. And certainly, being in a trial is sort of going out of the box. But if a trial doesn’t work then they basically put you out to pasture. And Dr. Hirschfeld is really out of the box. He’s not locked into protocol. He’s locked into taking his vast, tremendous knowledge and expertise of cancer, of oncology, and not being restricted or bound by limitations that other doctors place on themselves.

Besides the vast knowledge you see, speaking to Dr. Hirschfeld, we also saw that we were dealing with a warm kindhearted person who really cared. And for the first time in at least a month from when we were booted out of the trial until we met to him, we finally had some hope. Now cancer is a horrible disease. In no which way do I want to imply to anyone that after everyone else is given up, you go to Dr. Hirschfeld and you’ll be hitting home runs.

Dr. Hirschfeld can push the ticket as far as a ticket can go. He keeps up to date with everything and every latest development in cancer. And his brilliant mind takes that knowledge and moves the pieces around to come up with ideas in his arsenal to treat the cancer and to do everything humanly possible, to battle the cancer.

In God’s Hands

I also have to make it clear, I am an Orthodox Jewish person. So everything is from God. Our first step is having faith in God; that we’re in his hands and that whatever is being done is through God. But God has his messengers. There’s no question, at least in our mind, that Dr. Hirschfeld is his number one lieutenant when it comes to taking care of, and, curing people.

A number of the patients that come to Dr. Hirschfeld have the same type of story is we have, which is that other hospitals basically throw in the towel and, ‘what do we do now?’ And the recommendation is ‘go to Dr. Hirschfeld.’ There are no promises. Cancer is a horrible disease and survival rates are not so great. But one thing is for sure, when you go to Dr. Hirschfeld, there’s hope. There’s a doctor who is taking care of you as he would take care of his own mother. He will do anything that can be done to battle it.

At that point it’s all in God’s hands. But I can tell you this, my wife came in with crazy high numbers in her markers. Really, really high number which shouldn’t be really. There should be a low number in markers for anyone who’s going through treatment for cancer. Just like RBI would be for a baseball player. You’ll hear the patients and their spouses speaking and talking about markers. We came in after that trial her markers went through the roof. I didn’t even know marker numbers could go that high.

Sarah’s Results

When we got to Dr. Hirschfeld’s door and we said, we’re here, take care and do the best you could, her markers went down substantially. That’s good, markers going down. They went down substantially to a point where Dr. Hirschfeld said, ‘We’re up to a CT scan, let’s take a CT scan and see what’s happened with the cancer. Since he started the last CT scan we had was done at this top hospital. And it was very scary because cancer basically had spread to a lot of different places. It started off as colon cancer, but when it’s stage four, it spreads to other organs. So there had been quite a spread and it was really a very scary CT scan report to read at that time

We went for the CT scan and we went immediately to Dr. Hirschfeld’s office from there. And when we sat down by Dr. Hirschfeld, he had just received a phone call from the radiologist.  Normally the radiologist just waits until he issues the report. A few days later. But he felt that he had to tell Dr. Hirschfeld that there was an amazing change and a lot of the cancer had disappeared.

And Dr. Hirschfeld wanted to relay this information to us.

This is Episode Two of Recurring Colon Cancer, Sarah’s Challenge. Click here to continue the story: Sarah Episode Three.

Names have been changed for those in this testimonial.